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(Stuf4) wrote:

From Herb Schaltegger:
(Stuf4) wrote:

How ironic that you offer your extrapolation regarding "pretty much
everyone..." while chastising my extrapolation.

This reads as another form of "I'm right/you're wrong", coated with a
heavy tinge of hypocrisy.

And how many posters are publicly supporting your continued games of
semanticism, pedantry, prevarication, equivocation and hand-waving?
None.

But let me guess: the lurkers all support you in email.

Umm, they're not lurking.

Then where are your supporters? Your detractors have had no qualms
about telling you when you're completely out in left field.

If you've been following the thread
thoroughly you've seen that Jim Oberg's website has a page that fits
in total agreement with what I've been saying here.

So if, by assumption, Jim agrees with the position I have put forward,
one might ask why he has remained silent.

Perhaps he's got you killfiled? Perhaps he has more interesting things
to do these days on the eve of a manned Chinese launch. (And please
spare us any tedium regarding Webster's definition of "eve.")

And an obvious follow up is
to ask why others who might agree have remained silent.

Because you're sanctimonious insistence on precise definition of terms
(even when proven wrong; see, e.g., Jorge Frank's post regarding
precession last night) renders you a bit of a boor, if a well-spoken
one. As I said a week or two ago, your schtick is tiresome. Especially
when you drop intimations of "insider" status yet insist on hiding
behind a pseudonym.

My best guess is that there is so much hostility among those who
persist in abusive behavior that a silent majority/minority (?) prefer
to sit out a would be scientific discussion.

Right. It's "abusive" to tell you that you're being pedantic and that
your prevarications are annoying as hell. Now, tell us all again who is
stretching definitions here?

(3rd Reich lessons learned have previously been provided as to their
application here at sci.space.)


Watch who you're calling a Nazi; Uncle Ashcroft's Patriot Act Though
Police might come tracing your IP address and subpoena your name and
address.

~ CT

--
Herb Schaltegger, B.S., J.D.
Reformed Aerospace Engineer
"Heisenberg might have been here."
~ Anonymous